512 MR. A. lovkridqe: notes on 



of the skulls were in very fine condition, beautifully cleaned 

 (20. V. 21). The hen bird was transferred to an aviary, where she 

 laid an egg the following day, but instead of hiying it in a big- 

 box of pellets provided, she dropped it on the floor presumably, 

 for it was smashed (Kilosa, 21. v. 21). 



A young owl, unable to fly, was picked up in the grass close to 

 this house the following year, on 31. vii. 22. Of fifteen parasites 

 from the stomach of this species Dr. Baylis wi-ites that these 

 worms are Habronema sp., " probably ' Spiroptera ' penihamata 

 Molin, although this is said to belong to a different genus from 

 ITabronema." 



B U B O N I B iE . 



Otus leucotis ? GRANTi KoUibay. 



Three White-faced Scops Owls, apparently birds of the year, 

 <S 6 2 y were flushed from a thorn-tree in fairly close thorn- 

 «crub. Each had the remains of a single darJc-coloured rat in its 

 stomach (]\[tali's, 19. X. 21). 



Glaucidium perlatum Vieill. 



A Pearly Owl had a large Jl. c. microdon in its stomach (Kilosa, 

 26. vii. 21), 



Glaucidium capense schefpleri Neum. 



A female with very enlarged ovules sitting in a thorn-tree in 

 bi'ight sunshine. Its stomach contained a male gecko {Lygo- 

 dactylus 2>i-oturatus) and a grasshopper. This is the bird that 

 makes a peculiar bubbling note just before dusk (Wami River, 

 5. ix-.21). 



Bubo lacteus Temm. 



I was shown an empty ten-gallon petrol drum in wliich a 

 Milky Eagle-Oul had nested in the fork of a rubber-tree only 

 eight feet from the ground and fifty yards from the house. The 

 one end of the drum had been filled in with plaited grass to induce 

 bees to hive in it. On October 1st the Ilev. R. liank's flushed an 

 owl from it, and found the nest contained two large white eggs. 

 To-day there was a broken shell on tlie ground showing faint 

 •traces of incubation ; the other was missing — probably taken by 

 a native (Kilamatinde, 5.x. 21). 



Bubo African us aericanus Terrim. 



A Lesser Grey Eagle-Ovvl banged against the mosquito gauze 

 which encloses the verandah. Was it trj'ing to take some insect 

 which was coming to the light, and itself misjudged the distance ? 

 I shot it, and on examining the stomacli found it to contain 

 lialf-a-dozen beetle elytra and one cricket (Kilosa, 18. i.21). 



